A blog where I will write mostly about programming in Cocoa and CoreMIDI, and experiences from my ports of Emacs and XEmacs to the Mac OS.

Top Ten Reasons I Dont Work on Emacs Any More

Friday January 2, 2004

Lets start off the New Year by explaining why I quit maintaining Emacs for Mac OS X in the form of a top ten list. Im really trying more to be truthful than mean-spirited but reasons for quitting will inevitably be negative :-)! So here it goes:

Endless stupid questions.

Ugly code with no design.

Design decisions based on software freedom and not technical considerations.

Developers gratuitous changes constantly breaking Mac build.

People making premature binary releases.

Geeky and rude discussions on emacs-devel and other lists.

People taking credit for things they didnt do.

GNU Emacs and FSF copyright policies.

Maintainer expected to be free software advocate/supporter.

Core developers attitude that Mac OS is a non-free platform and not a primary goal of the project.